La Crosse Council Faces Heavy Week Over Housing Plan
The La Crosse common council launches a busy week with a Friday regular session and Tuesday committee meeting to debate a cooperative agreement with the federal government for a 200 unit low rent housing project. Opponents urge a referendum and a public hearing on traffic, utilities, and planning items including an athletic center, waste disposal methods, public hearings on bus routes, and various street and school surveys.
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la Crosse Housing Authority
la Crosse County Taxpayers Association
la Crosse Home Owners Union
Associated Consultants
Donald Lyden
Henry Ahrens
Droft Manufacturing Corp
Milwaukee
Robert Tooke
Public Utilities Committee
Fred Steele
Public Service Commission
la Crosse Transit Co
George Street
Hayes
Charles
Gillette
Caledonia Streets
Young GOP Backs Senator In Wisconsin Convention
In Janesville Wisconsin the Wisconsin Federation of Young Republicans backed Senator Joseph McCarthy with a unanimous vote. Delegates amended a platform to include McCarthy’s name then adopted the resolution praising his anti Communist and security investigations. The group, about 200 strong, rejected a national platform and failed to adopt a separate platform.
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Janesville
Wis
Wisconsin Federation of Young Republicans
Joseph McCarthy
GOP
State Department
McCarthy
Lloyd Tegge
Waukesha
Young Republicans
James Menn
Madison
National Organization of Young Republicans
America
John Kitzke
Milwaukee
Rennebohm
City of 300000 Has Lone Dyke Holding Floods
Rampaging flood waters crushed all dykes but one protecting Winnipeg, Canada, prompting fears of total evacuation for 300000 as a spring storm battered the country and the central United States. Fresh floods from melting snows reached Crookston, Minnesota, and moved toward Grand Forks, North Dakota, while Canadian forces took control of relief efforts. The storm's wide reach caused multiple fatalities across Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas, and Ohio, with gusts up to 100 mph and widespread damage including millions in Superior, Wisconsin.
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United States
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Wis
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Arkansas
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Lower Lakes
Local Weather Forecast for Sunday
Partly cloudy and a little warmer Sunday with diminishing winds. The high reaches about 60 degrees in the afternoon.
Can Fishermen Outdo Lamprey on This Basis
Two Rivers Wisconsin report shows lampreys tasted like bull heads in a home edibility test. Biology instructor Herbert Dohrman and wife fried lampreys for tasting. witnesses described the flavor as all right and not fishy though not appealing for a large meal.
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Two Rivers
Wis
Herbert Dorhman
Oshkosh State Teachers College
Great Lakes
Dohrman
Louis Fandrich
Manitowoc
Herald - Times
Dohrmans
Cinthia
Jim Robertson
Herald- Times
Robertson
State Finances Pictured Rosy at GOP Young Rally
Governor Rennebohm told Wisconsin Young Republicans the general fund would show a 25 million dollar surplus by end of the 1949 51 biennium. He credited high tax returns and tight spending, but made no pledge on re election and did not answer if he would run.
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Janesville
Wis
Rennebohm
Wisconsin
Young Republicans
Census outreach urges La Crosse residents to report missing counts
Residents in the La Crosse area are urged to return census blankets to A J Collins District Supervisor Bureau of The Census La Crosse Wisconsin. People who believe they were missed by enumerators should submit a blank form with their name address and current location. The La Crosse district covers La Crosse Monroe Juneau Vernon Richland Sauk Iowa Grant La Fayette and Crawford counties. April 1 1950 is the reference date for residency.
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la Crosse
A. J. Collins
Bureau of the Census
Federal Building
Wis
McCarthy attacks Truman and Acheson over loyalty files
Senator McCarthy in Chicago accuses the Truman administration of deceit in handling Communist in government charges. He denounces the state department loyalty files as inadequate and phony while demanding full release of all files from FBI and intelligence agencies. Senator Myers counters with claims of no evidence supporting McCarthy’s charges.
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Chicago
Truman
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Wisconsin
Myers
Pennsylvania
Senat
Honesdale
FBI
Department of State
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Civil Service Commission
Central Intelligence Agency
Army Intelligence
Navy Intelligence
Secret Service
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Acheson
Kremlin
Rayburn's Brother Dies in Texas
Bonham Texas report says Jim Rayburn 73 brother of Speaker Sam Rayburn died Saturday after a period of illness. He was a retired rural mail carrier from nearby Dodge City and had been hospitalized only late last week.
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Bonham
Tex
Jim Rayburn
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Dodge City
Dr. Clarence Dykstra Dies Former UW Leader at 67
Laguna Beach California Dr Clarence Dykstra longtime educator and administrator died of a heart attack while fighting a brush fire near his Summer home He was 67 and had served as president of the University of Wisconsin 1937 1944 and as provost at UCLA He chaired the national defense mediation board during WWII and held posts with the selective service department He was a UW president and later UCLA provost with a long civic career, including a Cincinnati city manager stint and multiple honors and degrees.
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Calif
Clarence Dykstra
University of California At
Los Angeles
Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
University of California
National Defense Mediation Board
Selective Service Department
University of Iowa
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Ohio Wesleyan
Northwestern
Rutgers
Elizabeth Sylvester
Lillian Rackaby
Cincinnati
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Acheson Sets Out For Talks With Warning
Secretary of State Dean Acheson departed for Europe warning the non Communist world faces crucial tests ahead. He urged rapid mobilization of moral and material strength as he meets British and French leaders in Paris and London and then the North Atlantic Treaty Council. President Truman accompanied him to the airport. He cites Russia armed by 1954 and only about 18 months to end Germany occupation as stark context.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Europe
Bevin
Schuman
Paris
London
North Atlantic Treaty Council
Acheson
Truman
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Wind Storm Damages Hit Coulee Region
Wind storm sweeping Friday and Saturday caused extensive damage across the Coulee region. Power and telephone service faced outages during the transition from manual to dial operations at La Crosse Telephone Corp. while river levels on the Mississippi at La Crosse crest again near 11 feet. Restoration efforts continue as weather improves with diminishing winds and forecasts of higher river crests later in the week.
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Samal
Mississippi
la Crosse
St. Croix
Clarence Meyer
Grandad Bluff
Hillsboro
Plans Open House At Local Telephone Exchange
Beginning Monday May 22 the telephone company will hold open house in La Crosse under Vice-President E B Lamp. The public is invited to visit the exchange to see how the dial service works. Visitors are welcomed 7 to 9 p m each weekday through Friday May 26, with tours led by company staff. Appointments are needed as only a limited number of persons can be accommodated each evening. Call 2 9980 to arrange.
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la Crosse
E. B. Lamp
Telephone switch upgrade boosts weekend call load
The article notes optimism that switch-over issues will be resolved in two weeks. On Sunday after the cutover the manual board workload rose sharply and curiosity calls caused trouble. Lamp reports calls more than doubling to 100 percent above normal busy-day load, with 150,000 calls versus about 76,000 on a typical 8 to 5 day. At Onalaska, normal operations are referenced.
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Lamp
Onalaska
Parade Tops VFW Meeting
A 1 p m parade will highlight the third district convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The march proceeds from Division street to Main and Third, ending at the VFW club. Registration opens at 9 am at the club. a rehabilitation seminar by the Wisconsin service officer occurs at Pioneer hall. Auxiliary members join a 1 30 pm joint meeting at Pioneer hall. Dinner from 11 am to 1 pm, then a 6 pm banquet and dance.
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Third District Convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars
Division Street
King
Sixth
Main
VFW Club
Department of Wisconsin Service
Pioneer Hall
Fifth Avenue
Market Street
Truman Campaign Tour Draws Broadside From GOP
Republicans leveled charges at the Truman administration and urged him to answer them on a 16 state campaign tour beginning Sunday. GOP leaders plan replies to his speeches and label the trip a campaign for socialism while citing past defeats of Wilson and Roosevelt. Truman will deliver nine major speeches and over 50 appearances, with a Tuesday Cheyenne talk on government aid to small business.
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Truman
Guy George Gabrielson
Owen Brewster
Maine
Senate
Leonard W. Hall
New York
House
Mr. Truman
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Roosevelt
West Coast
Cheyenne
Wyo
Chicago
Taft
Ohio
Thomas E. Dewey
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Wisconsin storms leave three dead and millions in damage
A weekend wind storm with hurricane force gusts devastated Wisconsin towns. Green Bay recorded 92 mph winds, Superior faced 2 to 3 million dollars in damage as three coal bridges collapsed. Flooding surged on U S highway 2 and rivers overflowed, while 33 ships moved to load ore after harbor ice was broken. The death toll included Henry Aspen, 74, of Neenah, crushed by a fallen theater frame.
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Wisconsin
Green Bay
Superior
Brule
Duluth
Henry Aspen
Neenah
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